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Planning Our COVID-19 Response is Also Planning for the New Normal

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Digital Lending. My neighbor in Phoenix is closing on a house this week and will do so with the only physical meeting in the entire process – offer, loan, title, etc. An early survey of 93 banks done by Fintech Forge showed that 31% of respondents already had back-office employees working from home. Why go back if it does?

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Renaud Laplanche’s Second Act

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Which leads to the interesting case of Renaud Laplanche, the co-founder and former CEO of Lending Club and the co-founder and current CEO of online lender Upgrade. Both Lending Club and Laplanche are currently facing shareholder litigation that claims they concealed material weaknesses in the online lender’s ability to monitor its operations.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

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There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. Consumers was the first big credit union to deploy the Phoenix core system and this year was the first big go-live of the Lumin digital banking system. GonzoBankers, 2019 was a year of extremes.

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D+H Sells to Vista: Vendors and the Chasm of Mistrust

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D+H (and before, Harland) promised integrated loan and core systems and specialized credit union functionality in the Phoenix EFE core. The buyer might be an established core player, or it might be a lending competitor of D+H that wants a core anchor. The Phoenix EFE core has a Microsoft-based architecture with legs.

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D&H Sells to Vista: Vendors and the Chasm of Mistrust

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D&H (and before, Harland) promised integrated loan and core systems and specialized credit union functionality in the Phoenix EFE core. The buyer might be an established core player, or it might be a lending competitor of D+H that wants a core anchor. The Phoenix EFE core has a Microsoft-based architecture with legs.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

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Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. That’s enough to send normal people into the fetal position.

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The 2015 GonzoBanker Awards

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In the age of Twitter, Apple Pay and Lending Club, it’s important to remember the shareholder performance delivered by Gleason and team when compared to the behemoths. In 2015, our industry woke up to changes in payments, delivery, marketing and risk management that are more serious than the typical conference chatter.